On 11/Nov/16 12:12, Robert Orenstein wrote:
> > Yes! Practicality was what we were all about. One of the things we > taught, which I'm quite proud of, is touch typing. AFAIK we were the > only school in Uganda that actually taught touch-typing. Even the > secretarial schools don't have classes on this. at least not that I'm > aware of. > > Our students had to be able to type at a speed of at least 35 wpm in > order to get their certificates. We used to have typing contests at > the end of each term. We gave good prizes to the best typists (hard > drives, flash drives, etc) and our students worked REALLY hard on > their typing skills. Our best typists reached 75 wpm after a year or so. > > Our primary tool was KTouch, which is an EXCELLENT tool for teaching > typing. It wasn't sufficient by itself - a human teacher was necessary > to correct finger placements and to do a few other things - but it's a > great, simple piece of software. This is great! Shame to hear you had to close the school... Mark.
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